xxxviii, 192 pages : 23 cm

In this book, a range of Hoover Institution scholars offer evidence, insights, and ideas on the key policy questions affecting education. The contributors detail the importance of education to both the individual and society as a whole, shedding light on what education does, on various ways to structure education, on lessons that can be learned from the past, and on how much can be accomplished in the future

Includes bibliographical references and index

The age of human capital / Gary S. Becker -- Education as a determinant of economic growth / Robert J. Barro -- The value of education: evidence from around the globe / Robert E. Hall -- Redistributional consequences of educational reform / Paul M. Romer -- The education of minority children / Thomas Sowell -- Educating Black students / Shelby Steele -- Delivering education / Andrew J. Coulson -- Competing visions of the child, the family, and the school / Jennifer Roback Morse

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